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The College EC is hosting the first annual Horse & Hound Championships, an unaffiliated CCI-format three-day event, on 27-29 May.
Two past Badminton-winning combinationstop the entries for the 2017 event.
Reigning champions Michael Jung and La Biosthetique-Sam FBW (pictured, top) and 2014 winners Sam Griffiths and Paulank Brockagh head the list for the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (3-7 May).
The devastated owner of a three-year-old bred to showjump who “died in agony” after she was panicked by a spent helium balloon is calling on merrymakers to think before they act.
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Espoiro, who was by Ramiro B out of a successful showjumping mare, ran through two gates in “blind panic”, suffering two broken legs and a broken neck.
Owner and breeder Jennifer Birtwistle, of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, said the young mare, who was due to be backed this year, had swallowed the string of a helium balloon.
A horse has been rescued from a harrowing situation and another put down after they became spooked overnight in their field.
Twenty three-year-old gelding Jae jumped out of his paddock and fell into a dyke.
Tributes have been paid to a 10-year-old girl who “touched the lives of many”, who died in a riding accident at a Texas rodeo.
“She spent her last moments doing what made her heart soar,” said her family in a statement.
A fire service is urging owners to think about fire safety on stable yards after three horses died in a devastating livery yard blaze.
Outbuildings were also destroyed in the fire, which had started as a result of an electrical fault in the tack room
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A pair of rare twin foals have been born on a Suffolk farm.
Tiger and Lilly, who are by the Welsh section D stallion Danaway Sniper, are growing stronger each day and have become an internet hit after a video of them went viral.
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Eleanor is an experienced journalist who spent over eight years working for local and national newspapers before joining H&H as news editor in March 2016. Passionate about equine welfare and exposing the truth, Eleanor has reported on all aspects of the industry, from Brexit to anti-bullying campaigns, and from dressage rules to mules. Her sport of choice is showjumping, in which she competes her own horses, and she also enjoys reporting at local jumping shows through to international championships.